Kellar's Wizard's Manual : a practical treatise on ventriloquism and hypnotism according to Prof. E.H. Eldridge and other well-known professors : sleight-of-hand, secrets and methods of performing many marvelous mysteries, such as have astonished the public of all nations.

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T0 FORCE A HALF DOLLAR THROUGH A
TABLE.
You must be in a sitting posture,
Ind take a half dollar between your . . ;
E1136! and thumb, placing your arm '
about a foot on a table; and knock - g ,,
the edge of money on the table, at the
tune time saying, “ You see there is . ’ -
no connection with my left hand," ” '
extending your lett out further. The p
company being momentarily engaged; you can draw the
hand holding the money (but not your elbow) towards the
edge of the table, dropping it in your lap. Then quickly
returning it to the former position, you will, at the same
time, place your left hand under the table to catch the
money passing through, but in its way take from your la
the iece; then seeming to knock with your right han ,
Mi still holding the money, you knock with your let!
hand, which looks as done with the right, once, twice, and
thrice. On the third time you tlatten the right hand as if
it sent it through the table. You then draw the money
openly along the other side of the table, and throw it on.
Done expertly..must create wonder, and set you down 1.
true magician.
TO MAKE A PARTY APPEAR GHASTLY.‘
N This can only be done in I room
' 4 1. Take halfa pint ofspirits, and having
.‘ warmed it, put a handful of salt with
it into a basin; then set it on tire,
and it will have the effect of making
every person within its intluenoe look
‘ ’ ‘ ’ hideous.
HOW TO CRAWL INTO A PINT BOTTLF.
This is a trick in every sense of the
word; and when a wager is laid on the
impossibility, the deception is as under.-
Bnng 8 int bottle, lay it down in the
mom. uidpgo outside the door, and creep ; "
Into the room again upon all fours. This =5
B curling into the pint bottle.
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